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Sartorial mythbusting

RJman

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
Since I am free to go about at will, I don't think so.

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Seriously, guys, this threak has become as catty and sick as any more advanced threads. Is jefferyd still around to provide actual content, or are we going to be treated to another Untergang reenactment?
 

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
Recent update...they jail people for the most ridiculous reasons in the UK, and leave many unjailed who should be.

Three years? I mean, Des prefers structure, but come on...

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"Merrion (40), of Brocklesby Road, Ulceby, admitted conspiring with Christopher Rimby to import a Ruger .22 pistol, between January and October 2007. ... A company called Fedex, in Atlanta, Georgia, intercepted a parcel addressed to Merrion's business address."

A Style Forum accomplice? SF member William is Chris Rimby from Atlanta.
 

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What say you of this fine tailoring?

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Originally Posted by whnay.
What say you of this fine tailoring?

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After consulting with my wife . . . needs more mystery . . . less naked, more nude . . . . not flavor, but spice . . .

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I'm curious to know how the extra hand comes into play.
 

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Originally Posted by whnay.
I'm curious to know how the extra hand comes into play.

Why, to better feel the fabric with of course!
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"I don't feel that I can articulate in so many words, the sensation that great cloth gives. As I often say, "my hands know good goods more than I."

Frank Shattuck

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Originally Posted by RJman
Seriously, guys, this threak has become as catty and sick as any more advanced threads. Is jefferyd still around to provide actual content, or are we going to be treated to another Untergang reenactment?

StyleForvm member ohm has provided jefferyd with a labeled Poole to dissect...and the news is not as artisan-friendly as the first Poole, which had no customer label.

Click the elbow patch to learn more.




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voxsartoria

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Originally Posted by zbromer
"Merrion (40), of Brocklesby Road, Ulceby, admitted conspiring with Christopher Rimby to import a Ruger .22 pistol, between January and October 2007. ... A company called Fedex, in Atlanta, Georgia, intercepted a parcel addressed to Merrion's business address."

A Style Forum accomplice? SF member William is Chris Rimby from Atlanta.


Click Britney's navel to hear Chris's remix of her ode, "3":



Prescient number...


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RJman

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
StyleForvm member ohm has provided jefferyd with a labeled Poole to dissect...and the news is not as artisan-friendly as the first Poole, which had no customer label.

Click the elbow patch to learn more.




- B


Yeah, I saw.
 

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FWIW, I visited the Poole workrooms in the basement of 11 SR in 2007 and I saw the pad-stitching machine, but also a lot of tailors doing it by hand. I asked Angus Cundy why they did both, and he said that coatmakers did one or the other for various garments, depending on certain factors (which I did not really understand).
 

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On heavy tweeds, I don't think it makes much of a difference either way. Lighter weight suitings is another matter.
 

RJman

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Originally Posted by Manton
FWIW, I visited the Poole workrooms in the basement of 11 SR in 2007 and I saw the pad-stitching machine, but also a lot of tailors doing it by hand. I asked Angus Cundy why they did both, and he said that coatmakers did one or the other for various garments, depending on certain factors (which I did not really understand).

Should I get out the shears and destroy all my coats?
 

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I feel like that would actually make a lot of sense because a bespoke handmade suit isn't something you need to stretch or move based on the width of your shoulders because it's your size, whereas an off the rack, machine sewn suit is something that people of a roughly similar size but with slight differences here and there would have to wear, so the stretch is necessary to accommodate many people's varying, albeit similar, bodies. No?
 

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Originally Posted by RJman
Should I get out the shears and destroy all my coats?

Allow me the honour.
 

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